Citizen watches are supremely built and this is why the drivers of NASCAR have been sighted wearing them. Citizen Watch Company has been around since 1924, and since 1986 it has made more watches than any other company does on a yearly basis. Citizen built the first voice recognition watches, as well as the world’s thinnest LCD watches. If you buy a Citizen watch you are committing to a watch that is incapable of failing you, it does not need a battery, it does not heed water, it is a Citizen Watch. Of course, most of the Citizen watches will have the month day dating system and ability to be submerged fully under water. The reason the Citizen watch does not need batteries involves the fact that the face of the Citizen watch has solar panels (electrical devices which converts sunlight into electricity) built into it and they are candidly designed so one cannot tell the solar panels are even there. Even after the light is out, the Citizen watch continues to run on a reserve of energy that it builds up during the time in which light is available to the watch.